By Johanna Romero
Publication Date: 2026-01-24 00:12:00
If you rely on your smartwatch to keep your life organized, Google’s latest update might throw a wrench in your workflow. While moving reminders from Keep to Google Tasks works decent enough on phones, the transition has stripped the Google Keep app on Wear OS of the ability to create reminders entirely.
Google Keep on your watch just lost a key feature
We have known for a while that Google is migrating reminders out of Keep and into Google Tasks. On your iPhone, Android, or the web, this is a pretty straightforward process. You lose location-based reminders, but the rest of the functionality remains intact. However, a new report highlights that the experience on Wear OS is taking a significant hit.Previously, you could scroll to the bottom of a note on your watch, tap a bell icon, and set a reminder right there on your wrist. That option is now gone. The bell icon has disappeared, leaving you only with the options to…
